THE X570 DARK

The plastic virtual guide is one of the things that makes all EVGA motherboards stand out from the crowd and i personally consider it to be very useful.

If you've already seen my Z590 DARK review then the X570 DARK is very similar in terms of design.

The large aluminum heatsink paired with the two fans (40mm ones?) should be enough to cool the 17-phase digital VRM of the X570 DARK.

The more DIMM slots the less stable a system usually is (if you populate all of them that is) so EVGA has once again used two which support RAM up to 64GB in capacity and 4800MHz+ in frequency.

Typically for an EVGA DARK motherboard on the top left corner we find the USB port used for BIOS flashing, two LED post indicators and the safeboot (black), clear CMOS (red button), power on/off and reset buttons.

Moving further down we find the PCIe disable switches, slow-mode switch and the triple BIOS switch.

EVGA using angled connectors is for the most part a good thing.

The extra 6-pin PCIe power connector is once again located on the lower left corner (according to EVGA this connector provides dedicated power to the PCIe x16 slots, augmenting the +12V power provided by the 24-pin and the GPU directly).

The Realtek ALC1220 onboard audio card is located just next to the rear I/O and the NU Audio amps.

As mentioned earlier the X570 DARK features two full-length EMI shielded (and reinforced) PCIe 4.0 x16 slots and a single PCIe 4.0 x4 slot.

Removing the large aluminum heatsink reveals the two PCIe 4.0 M.2 slots.

Moving at the rear I/O we find the PS/2 connector, two USB 3.2 Gen1 ports, two Antenna connectors, reset CMOS button, four USB 3.2 Gen2 ports, two 2.5GbE Ethernet ports, single USB 3.2 Gen2 Type-C port and the analog/digital audio outputs.

Once again, no rear support plate, just the model name.

For this review I’ll be using the Sabrent Rocket 4 Plus 4TB as primary drive and the AMD Ryzen 5900X.

Of course, I’ll also be using the Acer Predator Apollo 32GB 4000MHz DDR4 RAM kit just like with all my Z590/X570 reviews.